MIX11

MIX is a gathering of developers, designers, UX experts and business professionals creating the most innovative and profitable consumer sites on the web. Sessions range from technical, code-based topics to expert advice on content strategy, usability and design. Explore the future of the standards-based web – join the conversation at MIX11.

There’s tremendous excitement and enthusiasm around mobile application development, and with good reason; recent studies show that > 35% of cell phone users in the US use mobile apps daily. The opportunities are enormous, but how do you stand out amongst all the competition? Windows Phone provides...

Ever wondered what it takes to make the award winning, wildly successful products people can’t stop talking about? We drudge through tight deadlines, endless revisions, and constant pressure to "get it right." But how do we know what the right experience is if we’re not sketching, experimenting...

Later this year, Windows Phone will support the creation of third party applications that can continue to play audio in the background when the user switches away to do something else. In this session, we’ll dive into exactly how this is going to work. This will be a detailed, live coding session.

The next version of Windows Phone will provide third party developers built in ability to create, manage, and access local structured data. This session will provide a complete overview of these features, and how to use them.

The Silverlight team focused on building a runtime environment and set of class libraries that was specifically tailored for Windows Phone. In the next version of Windows Phone, they have taken the lessons of the past year, and substantially improved the framework and runtime from top to bottom. In this...

Do you want your app to integrate with one of the world’s leading photosharing site? The Flickr for Windows Phone 7 app is a full featured mobile application that is pushing the boundaries of UX design and is 100% built on Flickr's API methods that are available for developers. This talk will introduce...

The mobile Web is here, it’s huge, and your business can’t afford to ignore it. Mobile users have come to expect their favorite Web sites to give them a great mobile experience – otherwise, they find new favorite sites that do. In this session, Joe Marini, Principal Program Manager...